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Excerpt from Lincoln Centennial Association Addresses: Delivered at the Annual Banquet Held at Springfield, Illinois, February 12th, 1912, Commemorating the One Hundred and Third Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln We look at the stars from two motives: because they are luminous and because they are mysterious, but seen through a perspective of fifty years, Lincoln appears to us as a brighter radiance and a deeper mystery - the mystery of individual genius. As the years pass by, the choicest spirits of the world are coming more and more to feel an absorb ing affection for and to live as in the hallowed presence of this man who for a full generation went in and out among the people of Springfield. Lincoln believed in liberty. It was his oft ex pressed wish that all men everywhere might be free Tand he believed that the sovereignty of self over self is the highest liberty. He believed in equality - that as liberty is the summit of society, so equality is its base - equality before the law. He believed in fraternity and his definition of fraternity was that portion of each one 's self which he gives up for others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.